Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-13

We study God In this world by the Biblical
photogra.h OF Him; but we all know we can
In five minutes interview with friend get
more accurate idea OF him than we can BY
studying him for fifty years through pictures
or words. The little child that died at 6
months Of age knows more of God than all
Andover, and all Princeton, and all New
Brunswick, and all Ednsburgh, and all the
theological institutions In Christcndom. Is 1t
not better 70 go up to the very headquarters
DEATH NOT so TERRIBLE.
Does not our common sense teach us that 1t
Is better to Ic at the center than to be clear
out on the rim Of the wheel, holding nervous
ly fast to the tire lest we be suddenly hurled
into light and eternal felicity! Through all
kinds Of optical instruments trying TO peer in
through the cracks aud the keyhoIes OF heav-
en-atraid that both doors Of the celestial
mansion viii be swung wide open before our
entranced yision--rushing about among the
apothecary shops of this world, wondering If
this Is good for rheumatism and that is good
for neuralgia, and something else is good for
bad cough, lest we be suddenly ushcred IN
TO land of everlasting health where the In
habltant never says: II am sick"
What fools we all are to prefer the crclln-
ference to the center. What a dreadful thing
1t would be If we should be suddenly ushered
from this wintry world into the Maytima or
chards of heaven, and if our pauperism of sin
and sorrow should be suddenly broken mp by
presentation Of an emreor's castle sur
rounded by parks with springing fountains
and paths, up and down which angels Of God
walk two and two. We are like persons stand
ing on the cold steps of the national picture
gallery in London, under umbrellas In the
rain, afraid to go in amid the Turner'S, and
the Titians, and the Rapbaels. ! come to
them and n, say Why don't you go inside the
gallery" o." they say, 1--WE don't know
whether we can get in.n | say: Don't you
see the door Is opens" Eyes, y they say, s'but
we have been so long on these cold steps, we
are so attached to them we don't like to
leave" ''But," | say, sit is so much brighter
and more beautiful in the gallery, you had
better go in" No" they say, 1--WE know ex-
actly how it is out here, but we don't know
how 1t is in there" o. let us be glad that we
are one year nearer the scene that explains
all, and irradates all
GLoRIEs OF THE LAST DAY.
In 1885 the French resolved that at Client
they would have musical demonstration
that had never been heard OF. 1t would be
made up of the chimes of bells and the dis
charge OF cannon. The experiment was a
perfect success. What with the ringing of
the bells and the report of the ordinance, the
city trembled and the hills shook with the
trimphal march that was as strange as 1t
was overwhelming. With a more glorious ac-
compartment will Gods dear children go into
their high residence, when the trumpcts
shall sound and the last day has come. At the
signal given the bells Of the towers and of the
lighthouses and of the cities will strike their
sweetness into last chime that shall ring into
the heavens and float off upon the sea, joined
by the boom OF bursting mine and magazine,
augmented by all the cathedral towers OF
heayen-the harmonies of earth and the SYM
phonies of the celestial realm making up one
great triumphal march, fit to celebrate the
ascent of the redeemed to where they shall
shine as the stars forever and forever With
such anticlpations We can look back without
single regret upon the flying years, aud for
ward with exultation to the time when the
archangel, with one foot on the sea and the
other foot on the land shall swear by Him
that liyeth forever and ever that time shall be
no longer.